Posted on 12/27/2002 10:48:59 AM PST by maquiladora
Phase I: Tunnel under the DMZ (done, done, and done.) Did we find all of the tunnels? Have we effectively neutralized this threat? It only takes one.
If there are enough existing and surviving routes for underground infiltration, move special forces units and weapons caches into place behind main defensive lines. Utilize a coordinated unconventional, but non-nuclear attack to disrupt command and communications, supply, and defensive troops from the rear, also hitting airfields and fire support units (especially ammo storage), in concert with or slightly preceeding a frontal assault on those sectors which show the greatest disarray. Pin defensive forces against their own wire, while attacking from the front in conventional fashion.
Alternate Phase I: If only a few tunnels survive, and these are insufficient to infiltrate conventional or special forces, emplace and detonate nuclear device(s) under the main forward defensive areas. Attack on the surface. Use airbursts (Nuclear, tactical yield) to create background ionization to neutralize aerial detection and warfighting capability and/or take out specific targets.
The rest is pursuit and mop-up. Unfortunately, we are still trapped in the conventional-warfare, Maginot line mentality we were left with in what was the second phase of the war when my Dad fought there.
If they haven't already done so, it is time to start drilling holes in the ground and filling them with water.
How long do you think five thousand troops would last in LA? They wouldn't make it to West Hollywood before they were all shot up by every cop, gangbanger, Korean grocer, and lunatic there. What if once ship got caught, or was boarded? They'd have to execute it perfectly, knowing that once the jig was up, the US Navy would sink everything floating with a Chinese flag within about 12 hours. No resupply for you, comrade.
Aside from being a great way to piss us off, turn every liberal stronghold in the US against them, and waste a huge amount of material, troops, and ships in the process, there's no reason for them to try.
Ooopps. There goes the 3 year warranty on my Samsung monitor.
The NK army may not be able to invade the continental USA but we have about 30,000 troops on the DMZ who could lose their lives and I believe NK has missiles that can reach the western US. Load up a few of those with bio, chem or possibly, nuke warheads and you can see the NK threat to the US.
For an uneducated guess, it's right on the money. The KPA chain of command is the most inflexible system imaginable. Their battlefield commanders are expected to execute their orders to the letter, and do nothing without express consent and direction from higher.
The U.S. system is decentralized, with great lattitude and freedom given to lower echelon commanders to get the job done. Even the old Soviet order of battle was somewhat flexible, if overly formulaic. The Korean People's Army, on the other hand, doesn't move without orders, takes no initiative, and exploits no opportunities. Their training exercises are rote, the outcome is known before they start.
While they'd be able to inflict massive damage due to brute strength at the onset of the war, they don't have the flexibility to take advantage of early battlefield successes and press the attack.
The number of 1.2 million troops is not entirely accurate, either. That's just their active duty regular Army. For rear echelon troops, they have the Red Guards militia, a standing active duty militia force of 750,000. Also, there are the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, around 4 million total, which is basically everyone who can shoulder a rifle and throw a grenade. Finally they have the Red Youth Guards, another 1 million or so teenage militia combatants. Many of the militia units have heavy machine guns, ADA, and other types of high end military equipment that makes them more then just armed peasents.
This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens -- leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.
It's worth reminding these too-stupid-to-be-actually-treasonous soccer sluts that HORROR of all HORRORS - they didn't let many little Kurdish girls go to school!! That's because they're dead from poison gas. A fact which fails to register with these sentimentalist demwits.
5,000 reasonably well armed and trained infantry with light support vehicles with recoiless rifles, mortars, machine guns and grenade launchers could create unspeakable mayhem in the right neighborhoods. Set a tactical nuke or very large conventional charges on the boat or in stacked (or 'planted') containers to take out the waterfront, the gangbangers, etc.
Infiltrate, then pop the op with mayhem in upscale neighborhoods. The panic would do half the work, the looters would do the rest. Control of Communications, Mass Media, water, power, and gas distribution facilities would be the critical infrastructure factor, plus a few key highway interchanges. Cities are far easier than out in the boonies, where terrain familiarity,arms familiarity, and dispersed populations make for more difficult targets. Difficult in the sticks to make the panic work for you.
Remember, the Chinese got caught shipping a bunch of AKs to the gangbangers a few years back, so who will be loyal to whom?
The invasion does not have to be a success in and of itself, if it ties up critical resources and permits the primary objective to be attained, namely the conquest of South Korea.
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